what is different about the Spanish calendar?


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The main difference between the Spanish and English calendar is that the first one always starts the week with lunes (Monday in English). The second one starts with Sunday (domingo in Spanish). Another difference is that the Spanish calendar always starts the weeks with a lowercase letter and the English calendar the weeks are capitalized.

Lastly, the month comes after the day of the month on the Spanish calendar. For instance, January 18, 2018, on the English calendar is 01/18/2018 but on the Spanish calendar it would say 18/01/2018

In Spanish Calendar

  1. The name of day and the name of the month start with lower case for example lunes (Monday) and martes (Tuesday).
  2. The format for saying dates in Spanish is: el + day + de + month (+ de + year), for example el dos de septiembre de 2019. September 2, 2019.
  3. Using cardinal number when talk about date, such as uno, dos, tres.

Further explanation

Here how to say day and month in Spanish

Monday ⇒ lunes

Tuesday ⇒ martes

Wednesday ⇒ miércoles

Thursday ⇒ jueves

Friday ⇒ viernes

Saturday ⇒ sábado

Sunday ⇒ domingos

Months in Spanish

January ⇒ enero

February ⇒ febrero

March ⇒ marzo

April ⇒ abril

May ⇒ mayo

June ⇒ junio

July ⇒ julio

August ⇒ agosto

September ⇒ septiembre

October ⇒ octubre

November ⇒ noviembre

December ⇒ diciembre

There are many important date in Spanish calendar, most of them influence by the religion, such as

January 6th: Dia de los Reyes Magos, Three Kings Day, Epiphany

February 28th: Day of Andalusia

March 15th – 19th: Las Fallas

March 19th: St Joseph’s Day

October 12th: Spanish National Day

Learn more

Religious tradition reflected in Spanish calendar https://brainly.com/question/1799623

Spanish calendar and Aztec calendar https://brainly.com/question/2193777

Gregorian calendar https://brainly.com/question/787530

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